Improving Community Based Tuberculosis Care in Ethiopia

Community Health Workers Improve Tuberculosis Case Notification and Treatment Success in Southern Ethiopia

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00803322

Acronym

community

Enrollment

318

Registered

2008-12-05

Start date

2006-09-30

Completion date

2008-04-30

Last updated

2008-12-05

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Pulmonary Tuberculosis

Keywords

TB, community, community health workers, Ethiopia, identify suspects of pulmonary tuberculosis, collect sputum specimen for examination, treat smear positive cases in the community

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to see if involving community health workers improves tuberculosis case finding and treatment outcome.

Detailed description

Tuberculosis suspects in the study area Outcome smear positive tuberculosis cases identified smear positive tuberculosis cases treated

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* suspects of pulmonary tuberculosis

Exclusion criteria

* not in the study area

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
smear positive tuberculosis case notification rate	september 2006 - setmeber 2007

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
smear positive treatment success rate	september 2006 - April 2007

Countries

Ethiopia

Outcome results